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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting grep part of word or Another word from a string Post 302525780 by Scrutinizer on Saturday 28th of May 2011 10:07:20 AM
Old 05-28-2011
Don't use -w if your string is part of a word. For example:
Code:
grep -E "[Ee]xception|closed:" infile

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